"4,000 Pounds Per Phone" | International Criminal Gang Selling Stolen UK Mobiles

Описание: Julia Hartley-Brewer speaks with Roy Ramm, former Commander of Specialist Operations at New Scotland Yard, about a major police operation to dismantle an international phone theft gang.

Julia Hartley-Brewer introduces the "extraordinary" story, noting that around 300 police officers execute raids across London, resulting in the arrest of alleged Afghan gang leaders believed to be responsible for shipping 40,000 stolen mobile phones to China and Hong Kong.

Roy Ramm praises the police operation, emphasising that it is an example of effective, intelligence-driven policing that looks beyond petty street crime to target the organised crime network behind it. He points out the sheer value of these phones, estimated at up to £4,000 per device due to their being unconstrained by Chinese censorship.

Julia Hartley-Brewer asserts that police often fail to act on reports of phone theft, even when victims use tracking technology to locate their devices, arguing that this inaction allows the problem to escalate on a grand scale.

While agreeing that police should be as proactive as possible, Roy Ramm attributes the visible lack of resources to the huge number of "abstractions" forces face, including the thousands of policing days and resources lost to managing public order offences and demonstrations.

Julia Hartley-Brewer counters by arguing that police seem to find personnel for controversial, high-profile arrests over matters like tweets, suggesting a prioritisation problem rather than a pure lack of numbers.

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